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Chemicals: a cheap weapon
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WASHINGTON Seven decades after chemical weapons were unleashed
on soldiers in the trenches of World War I, poison gases still have
an apparently irresistible appeal for many countries: They are cheap
and easy to make.
Hydrochloric acid and thiodiglycol - a solvent used in ink - are
all that are needed to make mustard gas, sometimes called the poor
man's nuclear bomb.
Some 100,000 troops were killed and 1.3 million injured in World
War I mustard gas attacks.
Seventy...
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